{"id":245,"date":"2008-07-26T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-07-26T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T01:15:17","slug":"fitting-final-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"229. fitting final visit &loz;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During my last week in Buenos Aires before moving to Sydney, I wanted to make one final visit to Recoleta Cemetery. No camera, no notes&#8230; just stroll around &amp; appreciate a place that I&#8217;ve come to know better than almost anyone. So today when Marcelo came up from La Plata to say goodbye, we decided to make that final visit together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good thing Mar brought his camera because it was the 56th anniversary of Eva Per\u00f3n&#8217;s death. Talk about an appropriate day to make my final call. With almost the same amount of flowers as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=200\">on her birthday<\/a>, the crowds were larger &amp; there was much more <em>Peronista<\/em> propaganda taped near her family vault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/evabday01.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The going was slow, so I read more praise while waiting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/evabday02.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lots of posters covered the door &amp; a married couple hung around, explaining to everyone what the fuss was about:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/evabday03.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/evabday04.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was an interesting wreath given by the National Secretariat of the 62 Peronist Organizations&#8230; formed to keep the Peronist ideal alive after his ousting in 1955:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/evabday05.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Per\u00f3n, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve always thought that the surrounding families wouldn&#8217;t appreciate such a spectacle. Eva Per\u00f3n doesn&#8217;t necessarily belong in Recoleta Cemetery&#8212;a subtle nuance that most visitors fail to understand. As a champion of the people &amp; an enemy of the upper class, Eva should be resting in peace elsewhere rather than surrounded by those who would have likely hated her. So on any day when <em>Peronistas<\/em> make a fuss over the Duarte family vault, Eva&#8217;s neighbors get plastered with images which are probably not very agreeable to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regardless of political implications, the day was perfect for my last visit to Recoleta Cemetery&#8230; until I return to Buenos Aires next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my last week in Buenos Aires before moving to Sydney, I wanted to make one final visit to Recoleta Cemetery. No camera, no notes&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=245\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">229. fitting final visit &loz;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}